Angel City wear shirts supporting 'immigrant city'

Angel City FC, the NWSL squad based successful Los Angeles, distributed T-shirts to fans connected Saturday that proclaimed "Immigrant City Football Club."

Members of the squad and the coaching unit besides wore the shirts earlier their crippled Saturday nighttime against the North Carolina Courage successful solidarity with immigrants successful the metropolis who person been targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The backmost of the shirts said "Los Angeles is for Everyone" successful English and Spanish. The squad said immoderate 10,000 shirts were distributed.

Protests implicit President Donald Trump's migration policies broke retired successful Los Angeles a week ago. National Guard members and Marine troops person been sent into the metropolis and dozens of akin protests person breached retired nationwide.

Last week Angel City issued a connection connected societal media addressing the protests.

"We are heartbroken by the fearfulness and uncertainty galore successful our Los Angeles assemblage are feeling close now," it said. "At Angel City, we judge successful the powerfulness of belonging. We cognize that our metropolis is stronger due to the fact that of it's diverseness and the radical and families who signifier it, emotion it and telephone it home."

The players' unions for the NWSL and the WNBA besides expressed solidarity with families "facing fear, hardship, and uncertainty tied to immigration."

"We basal with each radical seeking safety, dignity, and opportunity, nary substance wherever they travel from oregon wherever they anticipation to go," the NWSLPA and WNBPA posted jointly. "Every idiosyncratic deserves to beryllium treated with dignity and respect. We cognize not each concern is simple. But offering compassion should ne'er beryllium up for debate."